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There is, perhaps, no extant work of Sophocles in which his power over crude material is better displayed than in the Ajax. No other exhibits higher skill in varying a story of few elements; in untwisting rough strands of thought, and leading them into finer threads; in relieving the breadth of epic colouring with new lights and shadows; and this without breaking the contour, without marring the severity, of shapes long held divine.
It will be interesting to glance at the Ajacian legends as sketched by early poets; as dramatized by Aeschylus and others; as dramatized by Sophocles.
In the Iliad, Ajax son of Telamon is second in distinction only to Achilles; but they are broadly contrasted.
Achilles is the brilliant young hero, the perfect flower of Greek chivalry, unmatched in warlike spirit, but delighting not less in song and gaiety; passionate, and capable of profound resentment, but not by nature sullen; in council, if often rash, never dull; a dazzling figure, of manifold energy and with no marked defect, claiming, and holding, a general ascendancy by virtue of a temperament in every part vivid and elastic.
Ajax is a rugged giant, 'towering above the Greeks by his head and broad shoulders,' the representative of sinew, and, owing to his solid power of resistance, emphatically 'the bulwark" of the Greeks; characterized by sound good sense, but apt to fare ill in a keen encounter of wits.
Achilles is the type of force'; Ajax, of strength.
The story of the contest for the arms of Achilles, and of the suicide of Ajax, is not noticed in the Iliad. It appears for the first time in the Odyssey, where Odysseus, in the shades, is surrounded by the questioning spirits of the dead:
'But alone the spirit of Ajax son of Telamon stood aloof, angry for the victory which I won over him at the ships, on the issue touching the arms of Achilles: for his gracious mother Thetis set the arms for a prize, and the sons of the Trojans, and Pallas Athene, judged. Now would that I had not won in such a contest; since thereby the ground closed over so good a man, over Ajax, perfectest in beauty and in deeds of all the Greeks beside, next to the blameless son of Peleus.'
It is here said that the arms were awarded, not by the Greeks, but by the Trojans.
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It will be interesting to glance at the Ajacian legends as sketched by early poets; as dramatized by Aeschylus and others; as dramatized by Sophocles.
In the Iliad, Ajax son of Telamon is second in distinction only to Achilles; but they are broadly contrasted.
Achilles is the brilliant young hero, the perfect flower of Greek chivalry, unmatched in warlike spirit, but delighting not less in song and gaiety; passionate, and capable of profound resentment, but not by nature sullen; in council, if often rash, never dull; a dazzling figure, of manifold energy and with no marked defect, claiming, and holding, a general ascendancy by virtue of a temperament in every part vivid and elastic.
Ajax is a rugged giant, 'towering above the Greeks by his head and broad shoulders,' the representative of sinew, and, owing to his solid power of resistance, emphatically 'the bulwark" of the Greeks; characterized by sound good sense, but apt to fare ill in a keen encounter of wits.
Achilles is the type of force'; Ajax, of strength.
The story of the contest for the arms of Achilles, and of the suicide of Ajax, is not noticed in the Iliad. It appears for the first time in the Odyssey, where Odysseus, in the shades, is surrounded by the questioning spirits of the dead:
'But alone the spirit of Ajax son of Telamon stood aloof, angry for the victory which I won over him at the ships, on the issue touching the arms of Achilles: for his gracious mother Thetis set the arms for a prize, and the sons of the Trojans, and Pallas Athene, judged. Now would that I had not won in such a contest; since thereby the ground closed over so good a man, over Ajax, perfectest in beauty and in deeds of all the Greeks beside, next to the blameless son of Peleus.'
It is here said that the arms were awarded, not by the Greeks, but by the Trojans.
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